Bibliograph

Making marriage work, a history of marriage and divorce in the twentieth-century United States, Kristin Celello

Type

Label

Making marriage work, a history of marriage and divorce in the twentieth-century United States, Kristin Celello

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Making marriage work

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Kristin Celello

Sub title

a history of marriage and divorce in the twentieth-century United States

Summary

By the end of World War I, the skyrocketing divorce rate in the United States had generated a deep-seated anxiety about marriage. This fear drove middle-class couples to seek advice, both professional and popular, in order to strengthen their relationships. In Making Marriage Work, historian Kristin Celello offers an insightful and wide-ranging account of marriage and divorce in America in the twentieth century, focusing on the development of the idea of marriage as "work." Throughout, Celello illuminates the interaction of marriage and divorce over the century and reveals how the idea that marriage requires work became part of Americans' collective consciousness

Target audience

adult

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